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April 26, 2024
The links are back after a two-and-a-half week break in Argentina, and to be honest, my brain is still not fully re-engaged. Argentina is a hard place to be an economist: announcing your profession begets many questions, some of them hostile, and all of them difficult. It’s an amazing place: friendl...
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April 05, 2024
These links, the second since our makeover, are exceptional in another way: I’m writing them on a Wednesday evening, and they’ll be sent out some time on Friday by my brilliant colleagues in communications. I don’t normally write these ahead of time: they’re drafted directly into an email, with the ...
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April 02, 2024
Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) published new guidance aiming to support government officials as they negotiate and implement international agreements on health worker mobility. In an era characterized as a “global scramble” for health workers, what does this guidance say and how can ...
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March 22, 2024
Well, if everything works out, today should be the day you get the snazzy new links email in your inbox, complete with the Economics and Marginalia branding and the new (old) title. Let me know how you like it! On the plus side, I like the logo and the font, and it’s a starting point from which we m...
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March 19, 2024
oughly, six percent of health allocations are estimated to be siphoned away through corruption. Health systems are particularly vulnerable to corruption because of the complex nature of the provision of health care, information asymmetries and financial fragmentation. To advance progress toward UHC,...
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March 15, 2024
This week, in lieu of further stories about my three-year-old’s eccentricity, I bring some exciting news: next week, the links are going to get a makeover. This has been in the works for a very long time. We first started talking about it more than a year ago, but with one thing or another, we haven...
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March 08, 2024
Sorry for the lack of links last week: childcare responsibilities trumped reading and musing on the assorted economic and research detritus that was settling on my brain. But what you lost last Friday, you gain today: though I’m going to try and stick to 7 items, as usual, there will be a little mor...
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February 26, 2024
As most of the developing world struggles to increase, let alone maintain current levels of domestic health expenditure, getting more health for the money has never been more important. Building robust health technology assessment (HTA) systems to inform governments on which health technologies and ...
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February 23, 2024
Today, my son walked into one of my meetings to demand I dismantle one of his toy trucks (it’s touching how much faith he has in my non-existent facility with tools), and on being told I would do it after the meeting, declared that he would wait for me. He sat down by my chair and started howling at...
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February 16, 2024
Last week’s promise to saw the legs off the bed has yet to be implemented. Three immediate constraints presented themselves: first, I need to buy a saw (I wasn’t kidding when I said DIY isn’t my thing); then the little one fell ill, and it seemed cruel to chop the bed down while he was still in it; ...